By Fulman Mukobeko Transperancy International Zambia(TIZ) president Reuben Lifuka says government contracts should not be given to bidders on political patronage. Lifuka said during the Seminar on the Effectiveness of Anti-Corruption Bodies in Zambia, that TIZ has a problem with party cadres who assume they should be given preference simply because they belong to the […]

Patriotic Front Secretary General Davies Mwila says the gutting of Lusaka City Market has been received with great distress by the ruling party. According to a statement issued by PF Media Director Sunday Chanda, Mwila said if it was an act of sabotage, strict sanctions should be imposed on those involved and […]

Electoral Expert Macdonald Chipenzi says the Patriotic Front(PF) thugs’vicious PF thugs armed with machetes, pangas and all sorts of deadly weapon went rampage hacking mourner of Clance Zulu’s burial at Memorial Park where one lost life. In a statement, Chipenzi said the happenings of at Clance’s burial place is a demonstration to all including doubting […]

By Jacqueline Mwitwa in Lusaka An unidentified thief escaped death, when an angry mob descended on him after he attempted to steal a carpet from an unfinished house in Kanyama Compound, West of capital Lusaka. The disgruntled thief managed to escape mob justice for attempting to steal a piece of carpet worth little than […]

Three children from the same family have drowned in a swimming pool at an area called Water Falls in Chongwe. Police in Lusaka confirmed the incident yesterday saying the bodies were lying in Chongwe Mini-hospital. Investigations are underway although no foul play is being suspected in preliminary findings. Meanwhile, four bodies of the people killed […]

A 35-year-old man of Mansa has narrated before the Mansa local court how his wife of 10 years spent nights away from home on the pretext that she was doing school assignments. Paul Mwansa said this in a case in which he has sued Maureen Mwewa for divorce. The two have four children together. Mwansa […]

POLICE in Lusaka have revealed that two young women who were discovered dead in Chilanga yesterday and today were murdered by the same perpetrator. Zambia Police Service Public Relations Officer Esther Mwaata Katongo has told Mwebantu that they suspect that both the murders were connected because two young women where dumped in maize fields near […]

THE Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) in different parts of the country has arrested four small scale farmers for unlawful cultivation of fresh cannabis plants. Commission Spokesperson Theresa Katongo named those arrested as; Frank Kapande aged 53, a small scale farmer of Nachandwe village in Kawambwa District for unlawful cultivation of fresh cannabis plants weighing 325.48kg, […]

A Lusaka husband has just thrown himself off the tall unfinshied building at at Stanely Bus Station. Fortunately, he landed in the hands of the police and has since been put in custody. It is not yet established why he wanted to to leave his wife and children but police say he’s well and only […]

The police officer accused of killing a colleague at the Chongwe checkpoint barrier near the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport roundabout yesterday appeared for mention in the Lusaka magistrate’s court. Clifford Mukonka, 47, an inspector, is charged with one count of manslaughter. Mukonka is alleged to have, on October 25, 2016, negligently caused the death of […]